Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1887-10-29
EVERYDAY EVILS.
-ue rev. DR.. TALMAGs'S DIS
5 COURSE.
Dad Effects of Pernicious Lit
serature Pointed Out.
rss Iufatuation for Strong Drink
All Too Powerful

and Card Playing Also Forbidden
M.,,,-Wal Street Speculation and
-, ~ All Kinds Death-Strong Blows
nr me tabernacle Pastor-Advice and
warning Given to AL Young Men-Ths
poes shsllsy's Terrible Fate.
-p..ox,yx NJ r.. Oct. 18-"Seven hund red
and eIghty-one thousand three hundred md
stI,.en dollars and twenty four cents ave
hen Maid cash down IN this church for re-
IIg,ous uses and Christian work during the
nineteen years of my ministry" said the Rev.
7. Dewitt Talmage, D. D., this morning in
answer TO the Misrepresentation that had
been going through some of the religious pa
uers depreciating the work Of the Brooklyn
tabernacle.
After given out the hymn: ~
q s Our GOD. our help IN ages past
Our hope for years to come,
DR.. Tslmage preached q sermon, the subject
Of which was, Forbidden Honey" the text
being L Samuel, xiv, 43: IT did but taste
little honey with the rod that was in my hand,
and, 10, must die.n DR.. Talmage said:
Tue honey bee Is q most ingenious archl-
tect, q Christopher Wren among insects, a
geometer drawing hexagons and pentagons q
lreeboossr robbirg the fields of pollen and
ruua, q wondrous creature of God whose
biography, written by Huber and Swammer-
Dam, is an enchantment for any lover of ma
lure Virgil celebrated the bee in his fable of
Aristaeus, and Moses, and Samuel, ann David,
spd Solomon, and Jeremiah, and Ezekiel, and
: D. John used the delicacies Of bee manufac-
tur&aas Bible symboLg -
.zHE- BEE AND ITS wAYs
kmnses Of fcnnation Is the bee: i've eyes,
two tongues, ~the outer having q sheath of
protection hairs on all sides of its tiny BODY to
hrnsh ap ths particles of flowers, Its flight 90
straight that oil the world knows of the bee
lima Thahoneycomb is a palace such as no
one but God could plan, and the honey bee
construct; its cells sometimes a dormitory,
and sometimes Q storehouse, and sometimes a
Q cemetery. These winged toilers first make
eight strips Of wax, and BY their antenna
which are to them hammer, and chisel, and
square, and plumb-line, fashion the for use.
Two and two, these workers shape the wall.
II an accident happens they put up buttresses
Or extra beams TO remedy the damage When
about the year lI16 an ansect, before un-
known, In the night time attacked the bee
hives all over Europe, and the men who
owned them were In vain trying to plan
something 10 keep out the invader that was
the terror OF the beehives of the continent,
u was found that everywhere the bees had
arranged for their own protection, and built
before their honeycOmbs an especial wall of
wax with portfolio, through which the bees
might 20 to and FRO, but not large enough
% admit the winged combatant called the
sphinx atropos.
Do you know that the swarming of the bees
p divinely directedi The mother bee starts
Tor new home, and because of this the other
bees OF the hive get into an excitement which
rai1es the heat OF the hive some four degrees,
and they must die unless they leave their
heated apartments, and they follow the
mother bee and slight on the branch Of a tree
and cling TO each other and hold on until q
committee OF two or three have explored the
region and found the hollow of a tree or rock
not far on from a stream of water, and they
here set up new colony, and ply their aro-
matte industries and give themselves to the
manufacture OF the saccharine edible.
JoNATHAN's SINFUL ACT.
But who can tell the chemistry of that mix
ture OF sweetness, part Of it the very life of
she bee and part Of II the life of the ieldsi
Plenty OF this luscious product was hanging
10 the woods OF Bethaven during the time OF
banl and Jonathan. Their army was in pur-
sun Of an enemy that by Gods command
INST be exterminated. The soldiery we're
positively sfnrbidden to stop to eet anything
untlf the work was done. II they disobeyed
they were accursed. Coming through the
woods they found place where the bees had
oeep ousy. great honey mauufaetory. Honey
Enthred In the hollow OF the trees until it
bad overfiowed upon the ground In great pro-
fusion Of sweetness. All the army obeyed
orders and touched II not save Jonathan, aud
ne not knowing the military order about alb
euence dipped the end OF q stick he had in
nn hand INTO the candied liquid and as yellow
and brown and tempting n glowed on the end
OF TIE stick he put 1t TO his mouth and ate the
honey: Judgment fell upon him, and but for
special intervention be would have been slain.
In nv text Jonathan announces his awful
mistake: II did but taste little honey with
~ i must die" Alas, what multitudes of
people IN all ages have been damaged by for
o'dden honey. BY which | mean temptation,
eellcious and attractive but damaging and
destructive -
BAD LrTrRAruRE's ErrEcrs.
Literature, fascinating but deathful, comes
IN THIS category. Where one good, honest,
hehtuiui OOOk IL rehO now there are 100 made
np OF rhetorical trash, consumed with ayidity.
when the boy on the cars comes through with
q pteof publications hook over the titles and
notice that nine out of ten of the books are
Depicting and injurious All the way from
New York to Chicogo or New Orleans notice
mat Objectionable books dominate. Taste
ior pure literature is poisoned by this scum of
tne publishing house. Every book in which
an triumphs over virtue, or In which A CLAM
our 10 thrown over dissipation or which leaves
you az its last line with less respect for the
marriage institution and less abnorrence for
sae parsmour, Is a depression of your own
moral chEacter Rhe book bindery may be
,n.tuacfive, and the plot dramatic, and start
ing, - .tee style Of writing sweet az the
money that Jonathan dipped up with his rod,
~ ys est interests forbid M your moral
ssNty fGbids ik your God forbids it and one
1ste OF II may lead TO such bad results that
you may have TO say at the close Of the ex-
pertinent or atsthe close of q rnisiuproved
nIeume: II did but taste a little honey with
!ee roo that was in my hand. and, 10, must
=. erupt literature rs doing more to-day for
srnption Of domestic life than any other